• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    More people have died from caffeine overdose then weed overdose.

    Sounds like a rectal fact, got a source?

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      It’s true, mostly because the LD 50 for THC is like a kg/kg (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563174/). It’s so astronomical that you would die from many other issues before thc became a concern. Caffeine actually has a pretty low LD 50 even among many illicit drugs, it’s just more widespread so people aren’t incentivized to take hyper-concentrated doses of it.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      I don’t think there’s a single recorded example of someone dying from cannabis overdose in the history of humankind.